21 Back-to-School Must-Haves

The Classic 12 pack provides a full rainbow of colors to paint with a washable and fast-drying formula that allows them to dry in 90 seconds — no cups, smocks, water, or brushes needed. Great on poster paper, cardboard, wood, canvas, and more! Easily washes off from hands and clothes.

This construction toy is based on a mathematical shape called a hyperbolic paraboloid. Kids can link together the versatile shapesin an infinite number of flexible combinations.

Each game features educational lessons fit for preschoolers. Criss-Cross Applesauce is a cooperative game in which players remember a series of activities and link them together in sequence. Hocus Pocus, Everybody Focus is an observation game that encourages kids to improve their visual-spatial and memorization skills. Letter, Number or Bug is a card game that…

This bud playset is equipped with songs and sounds, this interactive bus is perfect for creating original Numberblocks stories. It's designed with shapes, numbers, and embedded features to encourage number fun. Kids can use the slider on the front of the bus to choose their destination and enjoy the ride. Includes a Numberblock Seven figure.

This set guides kids through building paper airplanes, installing a motor circuit to launch airplanes and flying saucers, creating art on a spinning wheel, levitating objects over a fan with air pressure, and more.

On the outside of the portable school desk are a magnetic blackboard, two built-in utensil cups, and a stand for the learning cards. Kids will open it up and find a magnetic whiteboard, two lidded storage spaces, plus plenty of supplies including chalk, magnetic letters and numbers, magnetic tangram shapes, sight word cards, math cards,…

This beginner-friendly brain teaser challenges players with memory games. It features three types of challenges and has 10 tiles with tricolor LED lights and sound effects.

These 2.5-pound weighted plush create deep pressure stimulation to help promote a sense of security, reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep quality, and create a calming effect.

Once kids fit all the gears on the game board in the correct space, the pieces will connect and the wheels on the side of the gameboard will spin. There are 120 different challenges from levels easy to expert.

Toddlers can spark creativity and learn with their friends from CoComelon with the Learning Bus. This interactive toy features more than 30 colorful buttons and plays phrases, sounds, and songs to help kids learn letters, phonics, numbers, words, and more.

With more than 1,000 pieces including glue, airport-approved scissors, templates, a versatile art board, and essential art supplies, this portable craft box equips kids with the materials to create their own garden scenes.

Readers can follow Lolly as she enters a new space and eventually finds friends. Kids returning to school or finding themselves in new situations might relate to Lolly and learn from her experience.

Write or draw on this travel-friendly tablet using the included stylus or a finger, then press one button to clear the screen and draw again. Comes in pink, purple, or blue styles.

Practice tracing skills, letter recognition, and beginning sounds with this mail-themed playset. Kids can use alphabet puzzle cards; puffy sticker “stamps”; and write-and-wipe, double-sided postcards to learn the alphabet and new vocabulary words before sliding their work into the mailbox.

In Can of Worms, players use their memory, dexterity, and math skills to complete challenges. Players draw a card and put their hands in the can of worms hoping to pull out a match, but the worms may wiggle and move away.

This 40-piece set features four oversized, fully magnetic dinosaurs: Pteranodon, T. rex, Stegosaurus, and Velociraptor. The set includes volcano-themed tiles to create a prehistoric environment, and everything is compatible with other MAGNA-TILES sets.

The set takes classic marble runs to the next level with creative challenges and pieces that attach to any smooth surface. Kids can create hills and jumps, and even turn corners to create tricks and stunts.

These backpacks, available in an Elmo, Cookie Monster, or Abby Cadabby design, include a front pocket, mesh bottle pocket, adjustable padded straps, and an interior mesh pocket.

The 14-inch doll Binta sports natural curly black hair, a science-themed T-shirt, and a removable lab coat and goggles. The character loves experiments and aims to teach kids to follow their curiosity.

WordSnap is a word-building game played outside of a traditional gameboard. Players can use the octagonal, soft-snap pieces to craft words vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, creating a crossword puzzle-like grid. Players will score additional points as patterns emerge in the built words.

When players stumble upon the Math Monster’s lair, they must beat them in an epic race to the cave entrance. Fostering teamwork and collaboration, players must unite to outsmart the monster using addition and subtraction.